INDEX 



337 



forms of life, 97 ; factors of, 99, 137 ; 

 hypothesis presupposes uniformity, 

 138 ; of trotting horse, 126 ; rapidity 

 of, 137 ; time needed for, 310 ; discor- 

 dant views concerning, 310-313 

 Experimental proofs of Archebiosis at- 

 tempted, 146 ; difficult to obtain, 157 



Factors of Evolution, 99, 137 

 Fallacy concerning life, 23 



Fats, 70 



Fatty extracts, fission of, 42 



Feeling, 13 



Fermentation in fruits and vegetables, 

 172 



Ferments, soluble, 36 



Fertilisation of denucleated eggs, 84 



Fever, typhoid, modes of origin of, 320- 

 322 



Filters, Berkfeld and Chamberland, ex- 

 periments with, 15s 



Filtration through kieselguhr, 157 



Finger-tips, sensibility of, 127 



Fission, a property of living matter, 39 ; 

 cause of, 287 ; in not-living matter, 

 42 ; of fatty extracts, 42 ; of living 

 units, 38 ; of non-nucleated units, 74 ; 

 of plastides, causes of, 38 ; of Zooglcea 

 masses, 39 ; process of and nucleus, 

 39 ; rapidly repeated, 56 



Fittest, survival of, 103 



Fixity of habitat, often absent, 305 



Flask experiments with hay infusions, 

 152 ; with milk, 152 ; yielding Bac- 

 teria, 153 



Flat fishes, asymmetry of, 123 



Fluids, germinality of, 150, 151 



Fly, eggs of, yielding Ciliates, 258-262 



Fly, Harlequin, 259 



Foecundation, act of, 86 



Foodstuffs and movements of lower 

 organisms, 31 



Foraminifera, ancient and modern types 

 similar, 304 ; variability of, 304 



Force, persistence of, 59 



Forces, Correlation of Physical and 

 Vital, 9, 59 ; Vital, 66 



Forms of crystals, 43-46, 286 



Forms of life, lowest now existing, how 

 explicable, 97 ; primordial, 14S ; many 

 lower convertible, 228 ; doctrine of 



determinants opposed thereto, 229 ; 

 that of organic polarity favourable, 

 229 ; is comparable with convertibility 

 of crystalline forms, 229 



Forms of living units and molecular con- 

 stitution, 47 



Forms of simplest organisms, 43, 287 



Fossils, similar, lack of synchrony of, 308 



Free Nematoids, 248 



Friction, causing transformation of crys- 

 tals, 46 



Functions of nervous system, 23 ; and of 

 vascular system, 23 



Functions of nucleus, doubts concerning, 

 40 



Fungus-germs and Monads, relations of, 

 191 



Fungus-germs, origin of from Zoogloea 

 masses, 187-189 ; thermal death-point 

 of, 151, 152 ; proof of their dc novo 

 origin, 158 



Fusion of nuclei, 8g 



Gasteropods, shells of, 123 



Geological distribution of plants and 

 animals, 301 



Germ cell, primary, origin of, 80 



Germ cells, nature of, 94, 288 



Germinality of fluids, 150, 151 



Gei'minal metamorphosis, 109 ; selection, 

 75, 115 ; objections to, 116 



Germ plasm, continuity of, 79, 80, 89, 90, 

 115, 120 ; nutritive variations of, 97 ; 

 of entire plant, 91 ; structure of, 77 



Germ theory concerning crystals, 50 



Germ tracks, 80 



Germs, absent in Ciliates, 238 ; assumed 

 prevalence of, 54 ; in fruits, denied, 

 181 ; in old hay, 149 ; invisible of 

 microorganisms, 53 ; latent vitality of, 

 167, 168, 171 ; of Fungi, thermal death- 

 point of, 151, 152 ; proof of their de 

 novo origin, 158 ; resuscitation of, 

 149 ; survival of, 151, 158 



Glaucomas, 252 



Globulins, 69 



Gloeal matter, 184 



Gout, inheritance of, 128 



Granules, of chromatin, 75 ; network of, 

 81 



Great toe, increased size of, 127 



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